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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






2. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






3. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






4. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






5. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






6. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






7. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






8. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






9. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






10. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






11. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






12. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






13. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






14. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






15. Wide Range Achievement Test






16. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






17. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






19. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






20. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






21. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






22. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






23. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






24. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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25. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






26. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






27. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






28. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






29. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






30. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






31. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






32. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






33. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






34. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






35. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






36. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






37. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






38. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






39. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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40. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






41. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






42. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






43. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






44. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






45. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






46. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






47. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






48. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






49. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






50. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)